Directed by Alex Chandon
Eileen Daly, Dani Filth, Emily Booth
Alex Chandon wanted to create a horror anthology film in the style of the old Amicus productions of the 1960s and 1970s the gory, violent and entertaining anthology Cradle Of Fear is the result. Dani Filth, the voice of Dominator and lead singer of Goth metal band Cradle Of Filth (for whom Chandon directed two very dark and disturbing promo videos), is The Man, an enigmatic figure working for an imprisoned child killer who provides the link between four stories in which not terribly pleasant people are each killed in a gruesome manner and, in a break from traditional anthology films, a lot of innocent people also meet terrible ends for no particular reason.
The third segment features Eileen as the girlfriend of a man who has lost a leg and has lost his sex drive. The boyfriend then kills another man so that his missing limb (and libido) can be replaced. A large Cradle Of Filth poster is onscreen during the murder as are some other, probably quite rare, movie posters. Essentially a spin on the old transplant-from-a-murderer scenario. The role is essentially a straight one with Eileen playing well a girlfriend trying to console her partner and being rebuffed due to his own obsession with his missing limb. She delivers without doubt the best line of dialogue in the feature and injects just the right amount of gravitas into her role to make that line all the more hilarious. There is a wonderful montage of scenes showing the couple in a park as the man works on getting used to his new limb. A version of Eileen's song "Plastic Surgery" is included in one scene during Eileen's segment.
